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A.ANGELL. COMBINED GIGARUUTTER AND PERFORATOR. No. 331,366.

Patented Dec. 1, 1885.

N. PETERS. Hwio-Lillwgmphnr. Washington, D. C,

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ALBERT ANGELL, OF EAST ORANGE, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR OE ONEHALE TO ISAAC TEIUHMAN, OF NE? YORK, N. Y.

COMBINED CIGAR CUTTER AND PERFORATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 331,366, dated December 1, 1885.

Application filed February 16, 1885. Serial No. 156,018. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom it may concern: head and tubular cutter down to punch the Be it known that I, ALBERT ANGELL, of cigar. At the same time the cutter r is moved East Orange, in the county of Essex and State by the lever to out off the outer end of the of New Jersey, have invented an Improvement cigar against the segmental bedshear, upon 55 in Combined Cigar Cutter and Perforator, of which the cigar is laid. The shaft 19 is supwhich the following is a specification. ported in suitable bearings, 6, upon the bed 2?, The object of this invention is to perforate and there is a spring, cl, that acts to return the cigar transversely near the tip end, so that the shalt p and raise the cutter and move the the smoke can easily be drawn through that parts into a normal position after each out has 60 IO perforation into the month without cutting off been made. Theslotted cam-shaped arm raises the tip end, as now usual. I make use of a the cutter so as to prevent its sticking in the tubular cutter to perforate the cigar, and a cigar. The cutterr, that removes the surplus standing rod to free the tubular cutter from material at the outerend of the cigar, is of orthe tobacco, and I combine with this the cutdinary construction,and receives its motion in 6 ter for cutting off the outer end of the cigar, operating the shaftp by the lever 0. The tubusothat both things can be accomplished by the lar cutter a, its standard 6, and the slotted 'movement of one lever. cam-shaped arm q are movable, so as to adapt In the drawings, Figurelisa side view,with the machine to ditferent lengths of cigars. the tubular cutter in section. Fig. 2 is a plan It will be apparent that this instrument is 70 2Q view of the machine. Fig. 3 is a section with adapted to the perforating of the cigar at the a modified head to the tubularcutter, and Fig. same time that the rough end is cut off. 4 is an end view of the machine. I am aware that a cutter has been thrust The tubular cutter a is made of steel, and it transversely into the cigar-tip at the same time is provided with a head, I), that is guided by that the outer end of the cigar is cut off; but and slides within the barrel d upon the standthe tobacco springs back into the perforation, ard e, and the base'of this standard is recessed, and the smoking qualities of the cigar are not so as to be adapted to the reception of the ciimproved. gar-tip,which is to beperforated transversely. In my invention the perforation is made by There is a spring, f, that is within the barrel, a tubular cutter that removes the tobacco, so 80 and acts beneath the cutter-head to raise the that the hole cannot fill up.

same and withdraw the cutter from the cigar; The cutter 1, its shalt p and spring 19 have and there is a piece of wood inserted in the heretofore been made. base at 6 algainst which the tubular cutter is A convenient way of applying myimprove pressed in finishing its out. The rod 71 or disment with this old cutter is to couple the end 8 charger is within the tubular cutter, and it is of the shaft 11 to the end of the cutter-shaft p stationary, and it frees the tubular cutter as it and to provide an arm and handle, 0, that prorises from the tobacco that is cut out of the jects from the shaft 1) andacts behind the hancigar, and prevents it remaining within the dle portion of the cutter r. cutter and obstructing thesame. The top end I claim as my invention- 7 9o 0 of this discharger is attached to the top of the 1. The tubular cutter andhead'and the conbarrel d. When the tubular cutter a is to be taming-barrel and spring, in combination with worked by a'direct pressure from the hand, the stationary discharger and the bed upon the rods Z are attached to the head I), and eX- which the cigar is to belaid, the pivoted camtend through the top of the barrel and termishaped arm q and lever to actuate the same, 9 5 5 nate in a percussion-plate, m; but usually the and the arm 12, substantially as set forth.

head 22 is made with an arm, 6, extending out 2. The shaft 19, cutter r, and handle 0, and laterally through a vertical slot in the barrel the cam sliaped arm q, projecting from the d, so that the cutter may be operated by the shaft 9, in combination with the tubular cutlever o, shaft 12, and slotted camshaped arm ter and head, a discharger within the tubular 100 q, that goes over the arm 6, extending outfrom cutter, a support in which the cutter slides, the cutter-head, and hence forces the cutterand abed upon which the cigar is laid while at the side of the cuttenand against which the being acted upon by the tubular cutter f and the cutter r, substantially as set forth. stantially as specified. IO 3. The combinatiomwith the tubular cutter Signed by me this 5th day of February, A. D.

and the support for the same, the discharger, 1885.

and the rest upon which the cigar is laid, of ALBERT ANGELL.

the pivoted open cam-shaped arm q, a lever \Vitnesses:

to actuate the same, and a projecting arm, I), GEO. 'I. PINOKNEY,

WILLIAM G. MOTT.

cam-shaped arm q acts to move the same, sub- 

